Tour Koenig: an Octogenarian Died After Being Hit by Pizza Delivery Man

"He was very active and healthy. He was snatched life." Anslow Geerdharry still can not accept the disappearance of his father, France Geerdharry . This inhabitant of the city of NHDC Tour Koenig, Pointe-aux-Sables, was hit by a pizza delivery man as he left the supermarket, on Thursday 1st March at 18.30.

"My father was taken to hospital. He was already unconscious. The doctors told me that he had received a violent blow to the head and he had a broken leg. He died the next morning ", coward Anslow Geerdharry, who was living with the octogenarian.

France Geerdharry, a former employee of printing, is described as a bon vivant who never missed any news event. Buy the newspaper became a daily ritual for France. He remained active despite his age and his son helped in its work.

"He was healthy. We are in printing from father to son. It is well understood him and me. He died prematurely in tragic circumstances, "says his son.

For locals, the death of France Geerdharry not surprising. Some argue that someone else would eventually be killed before the commercial center of the Tour Koenig because vehicles using the road traveling at breakneck speed

"We requested that speed bumps be placed on this path. The drivers are careless. This is not the first time someone gets hit in the neighborhood, "says a resident of the city, stating that a man had been hit by a vehicle a year earlier."He had better luck. He was able to get by, "she says.

The driver, an employee of Pizza Hut, aged 31, was charged with manslaughter Friday, March 2 in court in Port-Louis.